RUSSIA – PGP completes reorganisation; hires eight

Vladimir Sokov joins the firm as partner from Hannes Snellman's Moscow office. Sokov has more than 10 years experience in the M&A sector. Also joining from Hannes Snellman are Nikolay Solodovkinov who will focus on corporate law; Aleksey Konevsky who will be in charge of the land, real estate and construction practice; Ilya Bolotnov who will run the commercial and M&A practice; and Elena Sokolovskaya who will lead the anti-monopoly regulation group.

The commercial dispute resolution practice will be managed by Denis Bykov, while the customs and foreign exchange regulation practice will be run by Anton Nikioforov. Finally, Lidia Gorshkova will head the banking practice.

The reorganisation comes after partner and co-founder of the firm Andrey Goltsblat left the business to establish a representative office in Russia for UK law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in January this year, taking a number of PGP's corporate lawyers with him. PGP co-founder Sergey Pepeliaev remained with the firm as managing partner, and vowed to continue PGP's operations through new hires and reinforcing its corporate law services.

PGP currently employs more than 150 attorneys in its two offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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